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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: What did Royal BAM Group say about staffing levels?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Has Royal BAM Group been in touch with the board since?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: When does the board expect to reach an agreement on the level of staffing required?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: This is all taking up a huge amount of time. When does the Department expect to be in a position to have agreed the number of staff and the compliance programme? When are we going to see progress and a breakthrough?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Are we just at the point of hoping at this stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It would be great to get something more positive and concrete out of that meeting. When does the Department expect to be able to announce progress?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Everything is very vague, and Ms Ross is saying it could take weeks or even months. When will we find out when this project is going to get back on track? When will we have a completion date we can believe and a final cost for the project?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Sorry, but it is not on the contractor. It is on the development board and the Government. This is a major public contract that is costing a vast amount of money. The public wants to know when will it be completed and what the final cost will be. Despite all the spin that has been going on in the media in recent weeks, we are still no nearer to having those two vital pieces of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: If BAM needs to double the number of staff on site in order to meet the June 2025 completion date, it is very difficult to understand how this will not have cost implications. Was that issue raised with Royal BAM? Was a commitment obtained from Royal BAM that it will substantially increase the number of staff on site from now on and that it will stick with the original cost?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: What was the commitment, if any, obtained from Royal BAM? Was it to fully staff the site and bring the project in on budget?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I will come back in on the second round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: One of the questions I had concerning the commissioning is that we know not one room or space has been finished and signed off on. How, therefore, can the commissioning happen with that background? How can that happen when the rooms are clearly not finished? Last week, I asked about MRI machines, CT machines and other similarly very expensive machines. Will this aspect be prioritised in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: I thank Senator Conway. I will let Deputy Alan Kelly in now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: Ten minutes for your questions and then the answers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: People are asking two questions about the hospital, one of which is when it will open. We are being told it will be June 2025 but we are not sure on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: We are not sure of the exact date when we will open. Is that what the Minister is saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: We do not have an exact date. We have a ballpark time for when it may or may not happen depending on the works that are carried out. The frustration that we heard the last time, when the board was in, was that there was no baseline contract. In other words, there was no work schedule that the board was confident would go ahead. On the back of the Minister's meeting with Royal BAM, have we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: The concern I have and, I suppose, most people would have is in relation to that contract. It was said that lessons were learned from that. Could the Minister outline what lessons were learned? There is a backdrop of a maternity hospital that is to be built. Will we have to go through the same difficulties with that? This process has dragged out. There was clear frustration from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: At some stage, maybe Mr. Tierney could provide the committee a note on it-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: -----because we are all worried. We do not want to see this repeated. In relation to the maternity hospital, will we see that built by the end of the decade?